Same Day Natural Cerec Crowns and Veneers
What is CEREC?
CEREC is a revolutionary system that enables your dentist to design, fabricate and fit a new crown, veneer, onlay or inlay in a single visit, a procedure that would normally take at least two weeks. It means no temporaries & only a single injection is required. Cerec restorations are natural looking as it involves only a tooth coloured ceramic and no metal.
How does this technology work?
Your dentist will prepare your tooth in the normal way he or she would before fitting a crown or a veneer. At this point instead of using “dental putty” to take an impression of your tooth, a digital image is taken using a special camera. This image is then converted into 3D virtual computer model of your tooth which is used as a guide to design your new restoration. Once your dentist is happy with the newly designed tooth, this data is sent to an on-site milling machine which fabricates your new tooth from a high quality ceramic block. The milling process can take anywhere from as little as 6 minutes to 30 minutes depending on the exact technology and complexity of the tooth.
The ceramic blocks come in a wide variety of shades and colours and is selected to match your surrounding teeth. Once the crown or veneer has been milled, the dentist may characterise it and stain it to match your surrounding teeth in colour before either polishing it or glazing it in a furnace. Your new restoration will then be cemented into place onto your prepared tooth.
KEY BENEFITS of the Cerec System:
- Single visit
- Minimal tooth removal – design conserves natural tooth structure.
- Fracture resistant.
- Biocompatible.
- Simulates natural Enamel (as tooth coloured).
- Single injection.
- No temporaries.
Please visit our Case Gallery for pictures of actual cases.
